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Images and Sources
The 1756 painting of Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher, reproduced on our Overview page, is located in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. This is the protrait referenced on the cover of the programs for Daly’s and Martin Beck theatres.
Fritzi Massary, the star of the original German production of Madame Pompadour, has been well-photographed, and many photographs available on the internet include her in her stage costumes. The National Portrait Gallery in London has a few relevant images. The image used on our Overview page is from the Stadtmuseum Berlin.
The scene from the 1930 French production of Madame Pompadour at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris is from the Encyclopédia multimédia de la comedie musicale théâtriale en France, a website dedicated to French comic opera and featuring A-Z entries on productions, composers, actors and theatres.
The portrait of Evelyn Laye as Madame Pompadour is from the J.C. Williamson collection of photographs at the National Library of Australia, Canberra.
The NLA collection includes numerous photos of the original London production of Madame Pompadour. However, several of the stage scenes, labelled as London, are in fact of the 1927 JCW staging.
Many of these same images have been reproduced in Play Pictorial (London), vol. XLIV, no. 264, March 1924. Play Pictorial has been fully digitised by Proquest and is one of the titles included in their ‘British Periodicals Collection II’, and may be accessed by cardholders via the National Library of Australia. Sadly the page scans are low grade B&W. However, most of the major Australian state libraries have hard copy collections of this publication.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, holds an extensive collection of costume drawings from the 1923 London production of Madame Pompadour.
The Daly’s Theatre program for Madame Pompadour, repoduced on our West End page is from the collection of Rex Bunnett, whose Overtures website provides a wealth of information on musicals. The flyer included in the banner at the top of the page was sourced from eBay.
Images of the 1924 Broadway production of Madame Pompadour are not easy to find. The images reproduced on our Broadway page have been sourced from eBay and from publications available via archive.org, notably Theatre Arts Monthly (January 1925). The sheet music cover is from The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection at John Hopkins University. In addition to the sheet music for ‘Oh Joseph’, they also have ‘Serenade’ and ‘I'll Be Your Soldier’ (lyrics by Clare Kummer, music by Leo Fall), and published by Harms Inc., New York. Curiously, the sheet music is dated 1922. Sheet Music Warehouse also currently has copies of the music for sale.
The Performing Arts Archive, a private website for the Bayles-Yeager Online Archives, features scans of the playbill for the Broadway production of Madame Pompadour at the Martin Beck Theatre.
Interestingly, neither the New York Public Library or the Museum of the City of New York have images of the show in their online collections. There is however a small still featuring Wilda Bennett in the book At This Theatre (p.4) and according to the book’s preface ‘All photos ... are from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York’.
Images from the 1927/28 Australian production of Madame Pompadour have been sourced via Trove, e.g. The Bulletin (9 June 1927) and Table Talk (1 September 1927). The portrait of Beppie de Vries included on our Australia page is from the State Library of New South Wales. The National Library of Australia holds other portraits of her. The sheet music cover for ‘Joseph’ is also from the NLA.
Other photos of the show are from theatre programs for the 1927 production of Madame Pompadour in the J.C. Williamson collection of theatre programs: General Theatre Sequence at the National Library of Australia. This is part of an amazing resource of digitsed theatre programs held by the library. Cast lists were also sourced from these programs and from programs at the SB&W Foundation and in private collections. Copies of the programs for the premiere Brisbane season and the 1934 revival at the King’s Theatre may by found at the Australian Performing Arts Colleciton, Arts Centre Melbourne.
The photographs of the sets may be found in the JCW Scene Books, digitised by THA in 2019: Book 04-0026 and Book 08-0201. The same images are also in collections of scene books held by the SB&W Foundation, and the Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne via Victorian Collections. Thank you to John Hanna for his excellent digital repair of these and other images.
Publication covers have been sourced from private collections and from various online sources, such as archive.org and Google books.
Record covers are variouly from CastAlbums and Discogs, or IMDb. Thank you again to John Hanna of Vintage Sounds, who provided the photos of the Australian record labels.
